Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Suriname and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Bauhaus to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Max Romeo,
Jandek,
Lindisfarne,
David Axelrod,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Outsiders,
The Vogues,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scrapy,
Anthony Braxton,
Derrick Morgan,
Adolescents,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bauhaus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bang On A Can,
Ossler,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alton Ellis,
The Offenders,
Skaos,
Gang of Four,
Underground Resistance,
Dead Boys,
Soft Machine,
Lightning Bolt,
Oneida,
Big Daddy Kane,
Archie Shepp,
Dual Sessions,
Tommy Roe,
Spoonie Gee,
New York Dolls,
New Age Steppers,
Bill Wells,
Sugar Minott,
Rosa Yemen,
Stetsasonic,
Man Eating Sloth,
Groovy Waters,
Wally Richardson,
The Victims,
The Busters,
Steve Hackett,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eric Dolphy,
David McCallum,
Siglo XX,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sarah Menescal,
The Pop Group,
China Crisis,
Q and Not U,
Black Moon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tropical Tobacco,
Soft Cell,
The Remains,
The Gladiators,
Kaleidoscope,
Swell Maps,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.